Memon Aamir Raoof
Institute of Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation Sciences, Peoples University of Medical & Health Sciences for Women, Nawabshah, Sindh, Pakistan.
J Pak Med Assoc. 2016 Dec;66(12):1643-1647.
ResearchGate has been regarded as one of the most attractive academic social networking site for scientific community. It has been trying to improve user-centered interfaces to gain more attractiveness to scientists around the world. Display of journal related scietometric measures (such as impact factor, 5-year impact, cited half-life, eigenfactor) is an important feature in ResearchGate. Open access publishing has added more to increased visibility of research work and easy access to information related to research. Moreover, scientific community has been much interested in promoting their work and exhibiting its impact to others through reliable scientometric measures. However, with the growing market of publications and improvements in the field of research, this community has been victimized by the cybercrime in the form of ghost journals, fake publishers and magical impact measures. Particularly, ResearchGate more recently, has been lenient in its policies against this dark side of academic writing. Therefore, this communication aims to discuss concerns associated with leniency in ResearchGate policies and its impact of scientific community.
ResearchGate一直被视为科学界最具吸引力的学术社交网站之一。它一直在努力改进以用户为中心的界面，以吸引更多世界各地的科学家。展示与期刊相关的科学计量指标（如影响因子、5年影响、被引半衰期、特征因子）是ResearchGate的一个重要功能。开放获取出版进一步提高了研究工作的可见性，并使人们更容易获取与研究相关的信息。此外，科学界一直热衷于通过可靠的科学计量指标来推广自己的工作，并向他人展示其影响力。然而，随着出版物市场的不断扩大和研究领域的进步，这个社区成为了幽灵期刊、虚假出版商和神奇影响指标等网络犯罪的受害者。特别是，ResearchGate最近在针对学术写作这一阴暗面的政策上一直比较宽松。因此，本通讯旨在讨论与ResearchGate政策宽松相关的问题及其对科学界的影响。
